Parliament

Communities Select Committee reject the lobbying nonsense of the freeholders’ good behaviour ‘pledge’

Brokenshire letter to MPs explaining his reforms … and accepting Law Commission endorsement of event fees

Ground Rent Addicts Anonymous sign Brokenshire’s pledge (three years after the scandal they created and denied existed)

Competition and Markets Authority cannot investigate leasehold mis-selling because of Brexit, Brokenshire told

Communities Select Committee MPs issue devastating report into the toxic leasehold system

Tory MP Stephen McPartland shames Long Harbour / Adriatic Land into dropping doubling ground rent leases

Huw Merriman calls for zero ground rents for retirement leasehold at prime minister’s questions

Are hedge funds behind Long Harbour, asks Tory MP

Taxpayer subsidy via Help To Buy for leasehold houses to run until 2021, MPs told

Taxpayer boost for offshore speculators as Help To Buy lands 17,000 home buyers in leasehold

Anti-leasehold petition gains 10,000 signatures in under a week

Scorn for housing minister’s evidence to Select Committee

Lawyers to Communities Select Committee: Stop ‘sticking plaster reforms’. End ‘draconian’ forfeiture. £10 ground rents a ‘mistake’. Make legal costs fair to leaseholders. Commonhold failed because developers make money out of leasehold …

Still hope for zero ground rents, says Brokenshire. Please end them for retirement too, says LKP

Theresa May also thinks that ‘building owners’ – freeholders – will pay for Grenfell cladding

‘Fleecehold’ estate management contracts are the latest fiddle from taxpayer-subsidised house builders

Furious attack on government Grenfell cladding inaction in Commons

Can the Leasehold Advisory Service monopoly survive devastating questioning by Select Committee?

LKP and Bottomley at Number 10 to reverse flawed reform of recognised tenants’ associations

Anonymous freeholders are the reliable long-term custodians of blocks of flats, Select Committee is told

Communities Select Committee lifts the lid on the residential freehold racket

Questions for MPs to ask Taylor Wimpey and Long Harbour today …

Welsh Assembly evidence over Grenfell cladding costs by FPRA ‘consultant’ Cassandra Zanelli is called into question

Labour MP Helen Goodman fights ‘fleecehold’ rip-offs with Private Members’ Bill

Government action on leasehold scandal has been ‘too weak and too slow’, says John Healey

‘Uncharitable’ Mary Magdalene and Holy Jesus Trust and the issue of lease extensions

Brokenshire wrongly says freeholders have paid for Grenfell cladding removal

Brokenshire to meet house builders and freehold investors … but no leaseholders

Select Committee on leasehold, November 5 2018

Long Harbour lobby MP Kate Osamor bars leasehold activist from Twitter feed

Justin Madders Bill: 10x annual ground rent and the freehold is yours … Anyone got a problem with that?

Kate Osamor MP asks parliamentary questions for Long Harbour on ground rents, says Daily Telegraph

Parliament told the Property Tribunal ‘stinks’: it lets down leaseholders again and again